Christmas: Snowflakes and tag

In an attempt (surprisingly successful this year) to avoid panic-making cards just before Christmas, I usually create a couple of small batches of cards; this was my first for this year. I keep the batches small and swap out the colours so that none of the cards created are identical.

How:

I cut some white and some kraft panels to size, arranged the snowflake stamps to cover them, and used the MISTI to stamp them all in Versamark. I heat embossed them and did some ink blending over the top in different colour palettes.

I die-cut tags in white and kraft, stamped the sentiment in Versafine onyx black, and threaded some baker’s twine through the hole. I also die-cut the tag shape from the snowflake panels.

The cards were assembled by first gluing the panels flat on the card base and then adding a silver glitter border along one side. To give a little dimension on the card, the tags were fixed in place with a strip of tape along the bottom edge and some bits of foam tape at the top.

Supplies:

• stamps:
  Hobby Art – winter’s snowflakes
  Clearly Besotted – Christmas sparkle (sentiment)
• dies:
  Waltzingmouse Stamps – stitched tags
• inks:
  Versafine – onyx black
  Versamark
• Distress ink:
  A. picked raspberry, spun sugar
  B. wilted violet, shaded lilac
  C. broken china, mermaid lagoon
• embossing powder:
  Wow! – super fine – clear gloss
  Wow! – super fine – bright white
  Lindy’s Stamp Gang – hyacinth blue jade
• embellishments:
  baker’s twine
  Papermania – glitterations – border – silver
• paper and card:
  Neenah – desert storm
  Strathmore Bristol 300
  Papermill Direct – plain – dark green
  Papermill Direct – plain – dark violet
  Papermill Direct – plain – azure blue
  Papermill Direct – smooth – lilac

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This is another catch-up post; these cards were originally made on 10th August 2016.